We'll have another post about the amazing Halloween costumes later, but we wanted to update everybody about the fellow who dressed as a vagina (tampon and all) last year. This year, he dressed as many a girl's movie crush Lloyd Dobler and, correctly anticipating sore arms from carrying the boombox, created fake arms. [Via reader Gregg - thanks]......

EVENTS: Both Open House NY and The New Yorker Festival are upon us. You can check out more of OHNY's event here, and The New Yorker Festival here. Some picks: The New Yorker Festival hosts a conversation with Errol Morris tonight. He'll be talking with staff writer Philip Gourevitch about Abu Ghraib, with clips shown from Standard Operating Procedure -- his new film is a study of the prison-abuse scandal. Friday // 8pm // Directors......

On Passover, Coca-Cola makes special Kosher Coke with regular sugar (instead of corn syrup)-- it tastes like the Mexican version enjoyed by many Coke enthusiasts. You can recognize it by the yellow cap and OU-P symbol. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: DOA floater in the Harlem River, serious MVA in Brooklyn Heights, and a boat fire in City Island. Caffeine fiends rejoice: free coffee at local Starbucks tomorrow from 10am to 12 noon. The......

EVENT: Nerd Alert! Come on by for Nerd Night tonight at Orchid Lounge where there are two geeked out presentations awaiting you. Presentation #1: "Genesis Rules! Wait, I Meant To Say Neurogenesis". Something about Adult Neurogenesis and Phil Collins, or something. Presentation #2: "TETROMINOWLEDGE: How Four Blocks, Arranged In Different Patterns, Have Changed the World, Kind Of". This one is mostly about Tetris. So put the Wii down and get out of the house. 7pm......

Coming to an off Broadway stage near you this March: Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison in "27 Heaven". About, you guessed it, the most prominent members of The 27 Club. No word yet on where the show will run, the press release states that it's "the featured act at this year’s prestigious National Arts Club annual benefit on March 16 in New York...27 Heaven begins an extended run in New York’s......

If you’ve ever tried to convince your parents that the bong they found hidden in your closet was an abstract sculpture, The Bong Show, or This Is Not a Pipe will be right up your alley. For her first curatorial project, Beverly Semmes “wondered what would happen when serious artists contemplated a culturally marginal object (a bong, for example).” Semmes’ colleagues turned in tongue-in-cheek paraphernalia—an assortment of artworks designed in various media that straddle “the......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a car driving south on the northbound West Side Highway, a school bus accident on the Williamsburg Bridge, and an "escaped prisoner" in Queens. Hypocrites! Streetsblog spotted two NYC traffic cops double-parked for an entire lunch break. The average price of a condo in Dumbo is $1,116,541. Perfectly reasonable! Here's a stack of pretty NYC night pictures Dirty, but accurate: Grand Army Plaza from the air. [Via Curbed.] What......

THEATER: The Impact Festival and fall at the Culture Project get started in a big way with the world premiere of The Treatment, which starts previews tonight. Add together playwright Eve Ensler (of Vagina Monologues fame), stars Dylan McDermott and Portia, director Leigh Silverman, and a sharply topical play about a traumatized soldier who saw and took part in too much for his psyche to handle when he was a military interrogator, and you've got......

-- A perfect treat for all of you who feel you aren't getting fat fast enough: Max Brenner is offering a chocolate pizza. -- 58% of the respondents in today's Crain's poll said Ray Nagin was right: "Rebuilding the World Trade Center site is taking too long." -- Worst summer vacation ever: first KT McFarland's daughter gets busted for shoplifting, and now she has to hang out with her mom straight through the primaries.......

We first heard of Apes and Androids when we saw the video for their song "Radio". The tune was catchy and we felt the same sort of dance in our pants feeling we felt when we first saw Ghostland Observatory. We then made them our Band of the Week, so clearly their mechanical rockbot had climbed into our subconscious. Tonight they play at Sin-e, and we hear it's going to be insane. Good insane.......

READING: The wonderful Paragraph, a downtown writers' haven, is hosting a roof deck reading, which is a pretty sweet way to get a good view and some good stories at the same time. The reading, which features Mohammed Naseeu Ali (The Prophet of Zongo Street) and poet Wyn Cooper (Stories From the Interior), will actually be held on the roof deck at Clay, the spa next door to Paragraph on 14th street. Wine and cheese......

Molly Crabapple, Artist, Model, Burlesque Performer...

All Wear Bowlers playing downtown at Here Arts Center in Soho served as a real reminder to us about the greatness of living in New York and having the ability to seeing something really special in a tiny venue. This is the same venue where Symphonie Fantastique and The Vagina Monologues premiered, and in all wear bowlers, we really wouldn't be surprised if they are cultivating another show destined for bigger things in larger venues.......

There’s no shortage of one-person shows on Broadway this season, and joining those ranks at the Booth Theatre is Eve Ensler, she of Vagina Monologues fame. We’re happy to report that Ensler’s Broadway debut is a must-see, especially for any woman who has ever looked at her figure with disdain (and c’mon, who hasn’t). The Good Body finds Ensler moving upwards from her vagina, spending time analyzing her mid-life obsession with having, yes, a good......

- The Williamsburg Bank goes condo - A bloggy love triangle - Dangerous pedestrian crossing in Chelsea - Eating In makes Cuban Pork with Mojo - Eli Manning will step up for the Giants - Dinosaur BBQ comes to NYC - The movie version of the NY musical Rent will be filmed mostly in SF - Is the Apple Store's singles scene any good? - An interview with Eve Ensler, of The Good Body......

Eve Ensler, Playwright and Activist...

Amy Sohn, Novelist/ Journalist...

Jessica Delfino, Dirty Folk Singer/Stand-Up Comic...

Gothamist knows that Virigin Airlines is supposed to be risque and everything, but the new lipsticked-mouth urinal at the Virgin Airways Clubhouse at JFK is really gross. While golden showers may be a part of people's sexual repertoire, Gothamist sees no need for them to be encouraged. However, if this is a way for men to act out the fantasy, well, pee on. But it's just gross. The Post reports Virgin Airways as saying, "We......

Todd Levin/Bob Powers...

"There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying." Gothamist has been looking forward to Robert Evans' animated show, Kid Notorious, coming this fall on Comedy Central, but this Page Six description seals the deal: Sharon Stone calls Evans to tell him she's dropping out of his latest project to do a version of "The Vagina Monologues" called "Sharon Stone's Vagina." Evans tells the audience,......

Okay, I am very fond of celebrity news and gossip, but the people (mainly New York women, natch) in this article about the mutual J.Lo obssession by media and public made me embarrassed. But why is it so interesting? A professor of media studies at NYU posits that it's because J.Lo is a "Woman in Control" - with "the entrepreneurial fantasy she lives that makes her such a star." The Horatio Alger of our celebrity......